Achieving Sub-50 Milliseconds Recovery Upon BGP Peering Link Failures
Sat, 06/23/2007 - 11:33 by Olivier Bonaventure
Abstract
Recent measurements show that BGP peering links can fail as frequently
as intradomain links and usually for short periods of time.
We propose a new fast-reroute technique where
routers are prepared to react quickly to interdomain link failures.
For each of its interdomain links,
a router precomputes a protection tunnel, i.e. an IP tunnel to
an alternate nexthop which can reach the same destinations as
via the protected link. We propose a BGP-based auto-discovery technique that
allows each router to learn the candidate protection tunnels for its links.
Each router selects the best protection tunnels for its links and when
it detects an interdomain link failure, it immediately encapsulates
the packets to send them through the protection tunnel. Our solution is applicable for
the links between large transit ISPs and also for the links
between multi-homed stub networks and their providers.
Furthermore, we show that transient forwarding loops (and thus the corresponding
packet losses) can be avoided during the
routing convergence that follows the deactivation of a protection tunnel
in BGP/MPLS VPNs and in IP networks using encapsulation.
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- Olivier Bonaventure, Clarence Filsfils and Pierre Francois
- Source
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 15(5):1123 - 1135, October 2007.
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